Butchers, bakers, candlestick-makers, and prostitutes: The women working behind the scenes in papal Avignon
In the medieval church ... carpenters and stonecutters. Women in Avignon worked as fish-sellers, goldsmiths, glove-makers, ...
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The hidden hand of medieval female scribes
Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A bibliometric analysis of medieval manuscript colophons reveals that at least 1.1% of manuscripts from 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, totaling ...